Bicycling is unlike driving in many ways, obviously. One of the less obvious, perhaps, is that you can’t take a lot of stuff around with you. You have to cram everything into one self-sufficient little backpack and maybe an extra bag.

Today was a yoga day, so I had my backpack and my yoga mat bag.

As you can see, that’s a lot of stuff to carry around. The backpack goes in my rear side saddle bike basket; the blue bag gets slung over my back. I look like a homeless person carrying everything I own, when actually, I’m carrying very little.